On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 14:53 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>> "RC" == Ralf Corsepius
<rc040203(a)freenet.de> writes:
RC> Yes, I withdrew two packages of mine after they had been lingering
RC> around in the queue for 14 months and turned away from fedora to
RC> shipping them via a 3rd party repo, instead.
Well, you certainly understand the reasons behind those.
As I see it, the reasons were (in decreasing order):
1. rpm/rpmbuilds's brokenness
2. Package complexity, mostly being introduced by 1.)
3. Reviewers' lack of competence to understand the need of
the complexity.
4. Highly specialized packages with small userbase/audience.
5. GuideLines incompleteliness (The packages are touching areas the
guidelines don't cover).
..
I don't
think we have many packages currently blocked on guidelines, so those
packages surely aren't typical.
Agreed, my packages were outside the
"usual class of packages" Fedora
can handle.
As I see it, community contributed Fedora is only able to handle
"trivial, mass-market" packages. I'd presume that most "non-trivial
packages", which currently are part of Core and 100% under RH control
(E.g. GCC, kernel, glibc, perl ...) would have never made it into FE.
Ralf